Re: < 32 GB partitions only at external hard drive
- From: KOtto@xxxxxxxx (ko)
- Date: 11 Apr 2005 06:42:53 -0700
"Bob Harris" <rharris270[SPAM]@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<#m9TVscPFHA.1172@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>...
> While XP has a limit of 32 Gig for creating FAT32 partitions, it has no
> limit on NTFS partitions. I have made NTFS partitions up to 120 Gig on a
> USB hard drive with XP.
>
> If you are having trouble with NTFS of any size, that is NOT normal for XP.
> In fact, XP normally defaults to doing NTFS.
That is true at least 32GB NTFS did not work whereas 32GB fat32 did
work (seven of 32GB and one containing the rest (<32GB) )
> Potential problems could be:
>
> 1. PC's motherboard BIOS does not support large disks, meaning disks bigger
> than about 127 Gig. Or, if a really old PC upgraded to XP, then the BIOS
> limit could be as low as 32 Gig. Check the PC or motherboard maker for
> details. While this is more a problem for internal disks, a suficiently old
> PC might also have trouble with large external disks.
I have a athlon 1600+ with a 60GB internal.
> 2. XP does not automatically support disks larger than 127 Gig, even if the
> BIOS can handle them. You need at least SP-1 and you need to enable 48-bit
> LBA.
I used a registry file to update the registry for enabling the 48-bit
LBA.
> 3. Maybe some part of the XP installation is corrupt. Think about running
> SFC /SCANNOW. Have your XP CDROM handy. Or, try a repair install of XP
> using the XP CDROM. Be careful, the difference betwen a repair instal and a
> clean install is only a few mouse clicks, and a clean install will erase
> everything first. If you do a repair, remeber o immedfiately run windows
> update, snce a repair removes all updates newer than the date on the CDROM.
I'll try this.
> 4. Try using the XP recovery console to make partitions. This is run from
> the XP CDROM.
I'll try this.
> 5. Use third-party software to make partitions. For example, Partition
> Magic can work on an external drive and is not limited to 32Gig for FAT32.
> It can also do NTFS.
I used ontrack diskmanager(www.ontrack.com/diskmanager/) and could
create only one big partition (233GB NTFS) but accessing the new
partition with the windows explorer resulted in the messagebox that I
should format the disk first.
> Finally, cionsider using a different PC, also running XP, to format the hard
> drive.
I succesfully created the desired structure with my notebook (xp home)
and yet again the same messagebox "that I should format the disk
first"
>
>
>
> "ko" <KOtto@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:81d38d4b.0504100125.762c2b14@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hi all,
> >
> > recently I bought a 250 GB hard drive to connect on my usb2.0 port.
> > But disk management in XP pro cannot build partitions bigger than
> > 32GB. So far I have created 3 partions of 32GB fat32, which works fine
> > but a partition of 32 GB NTFS is not possible or a partition of 64 GB
> > NTFS: in both cases the format step stops at 100% saying that it could
> > not be completed. Maybe important: on my notebook it has been no
> > problem to create to 100 GB partitions.
> >
> > Does anyone have a solution?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > KO.
.
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